Marion County AlArchives News.....THE MARION HERALD October 6, 1887 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00016.html#0003775 December 31, 2010, 3:49 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archvies And History October 6, 1887 Microfilm Ref Call #520 Microfilm Order #M1992.2223 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE MARION HERALD VOL. III HAMILTON, ALABAMA, THURSDAY OCTOBER 6, 1887 NO. 26 THE MARION HERALD JAMES S. CLEMENTS, Editor Hamilton, Alabama Thursday October 6, 1887 Subscription Rates – One copy, 1 year, in advance $1; six months fifty cents. Sample copies free. Advertising rates – One square first insertion, one dollar; each subsequent insertion, fifty cents. Liberal reduction will be allowed on large advertisements. K. C. M. & B. R. R. At Gwin Station (sic) this county, on 28th ult, the last link was closed on the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham R. R. A large crowd had gathered to see the meeting and at lat taken only two more spikes remained to be driving the moment was one of expectancy. President Nettleton had designated Private Allen, Representative in Congress from First Mississippi District, and Col. Keating, editor of the Memphis Appeal, to drive the last spikes required to link together this great line of road that was begun in August 1886. About 9 o’clock these gentlemen stepped out from the crowd and on to the track where a couple of sledge hammers were given them and hardly had the sound from the last blows died away when a long loud huzza went up from the assembly. As the cheering subsided, calls were heard on every hand for Private Allen to address them. That distinguished gentlemen responded to the call in a short but eloquent speech, in which he congratulated the employees and laborers as well as the management and subordinate officers in the completion of such an enterprise in so short a space of time. He said: “I do not congratulate the company alone, but the people along the line of this splendid road, which is in my opinion, destined to be one of the greatest lines in the South, connecting as it does, the foremost, most prosperous and progressive cities of the south and West.” This great line of road now continuous for 738 miles about 14 of which runs through Marion County and is a great boom to our people. We can have more direct communication with the outside world and not only will it give us a market for all the products of our soil, but will bring direct to our doors all such commodities as we have to purchase. In fact, this road will be a real blessing to the people all along its line. President Nettleton said the road would be put in first-class shape and operation so as to receive the patronage of the people as soon as possible, which is thought will be in a week or ten days. A young Texan named Matthews was arrested in Birmingham recently on a charge of attempting to rob a man named Rockett, who by the sway is Station agent at Wheeling…………… Decatur, “the Chicago of the South” is still advancing. The Cincinnati Labor Party has wisely refused to make an appeal in behalf of the doomed anarchists. In Adams County, Wisconsin, a great many Indians who hold lands in severalty and are pronounced citizens are polygamists. One old doctor is reported as having nine wives. ------------ A large steam ginnery belonging to Mr. JOHN H. KASTER of Cullman was destroyed by fire on Sept. 28th. The fire started in the lint room and despite the efforts of the citizens the building together with all of its contents was destroyed. The loss is estimated at $10,000 with but little insurance. We cordially ask all those who have heretofore been sending us the news from their neighborhoods to continue to write. We will make it to your interest to do so, because we want the Herald to be filled with home news and without our readers will contribute to that and it cannot be reached. Please remember this, and send in the news from your section. Another member of the Wheel paid the Herald a visit on last week, and not only paid the office a visit, but paid up for his subscription and ordered us to continue his paper. He said that he was a Wheeler, had joined believing it to be a farmer’s organization and as such might possibly bring about much good. But recently he had discovered that it meant nothing but politics and would soon go down to rise no more. The gentleman referred to in the above is by no means the only one that we have heard express themselves as believing that the order was on the road to ruin, and the cause hopelessly lost. Are these the kind of Wheelers that are trying to down the Herald? No, of course they are not. It is only a few such roosters as the Republican member who said a few days ago that they, (meaning the Wheelers) were going to “down this paper.” The rank and file of the order in this county are Democrats and the manipulators of the concern when they endeavor to drag them away out from the ranks of the only true party in existence, and the one by which their best interests have been are now being guarded, will find that insurmountable barrier looming up in their pathway, “too much Democracy.” Or in other words when they put a ticket in the field they will see how quickly the wheel will roll off the track. THE GROWING SOUTH Pig iron commands as good a price in Chattanooga as it does in Philadelphia, a condition of things hitherto unknown. Since the South has been a producer of pig metal, until now, prices in the East have ranged from $2 to $3 per ton higher than iron was selling for in the South, the transportation question entering into the calculation, which made the difference in price. …………….. THE ANARCHISTS APPEAL General Roger A. Pryor has consented to aid in the effort to get the case of the condemned anarchists before the Supreme Court of the United States. He expresses himself as very confident of being able to do so and of bringing them clear in the end. This confidence, however, is a failing with most lawyers who are sanguine when others are very little on which to hang their hopes……………… A FASCINATING GIRL – (short story continued from previous issues) Ad for Simmons Liver Regulator THE WHEEL The Moulton Advertiser says the Agricultural Wheel is beginning “to look and smell like the old radical party.” The Dispatch has never fully understood the exact nature of this institution. Beyond the knowledge that it is an organization of farmers, something on the order of the old Grange, the people, generally, in this section of the state possess little information of the wheel and of the rules governing its policies. There are several branches of the order, we believe, in North Alabama, and our Moulton contemporary has evidently had opportunity of forming an opinion of the organization. That opinion leads us to believe that there is a political feature involved in the polices of the wheel. It must be a very prominent feature, and, if the Advertiser’s estimate is correct, a feature as objectionable as it is prominent. Any institution that looks and smells like the Republican Party cannot flourish long in Alabama and we fancy that if the Wheel belongs to this class of organizations its days in this state are already numbered. Organizations founded on a desire to promote agriculture and benefit farmers are noble institutions and as such ought to be more generally encouraged throughout the South. It is to the misfortune of the farmers of the South that results in this direction have not been more successful. Organized effort in any undertakings is desirable where the grand object in vie w is a common one to those pursuing it. But when this object is confused with others that have no true relation the main work of heart, then the very intention of the organization is deserted and failure is inevitable. None know and appreciate this simple truth better than the intelligent farmers of Alabama – a fact which warrants the conclusion that the Wheel is doomed in Alabama as soon as it is recognized as something that “looks and smells like the radical party.” – [Montgomery Dispatch] Ad for Simmons Liver Regulator The citizens of Scottsboro ought to be congratulated if we are to understand that peace now reigns supreme between the editors of the Age and Citizen. PAGE 2 THE MARION HERALD Published Every Thursday Hamilton, Alabama THE LAST JOURNEY – (poem) ONE SINGLE FAULT – Why a Noble Soldier was Disguised as a Coachman TALMAGE’S SERMON – A Homily on Insurance, Life, Fire and Eternal PAGE 3 ABOUT THERMOMETERS – Why the Useful Little Instruments Can Not Always be Trusted DOLLINGER’S ORPHAN – A Benevolent Gentleman’s Experience with a Genuine Dakota Waif THE COUNTRY BOY – The Tremendous Advantage Which he has over the Average Town Lad THE WRONG CARD – Fortune and Happiness Lost by a Single Inexcusable Blunder THE NEW PRIZE STORY Ad for Queen of the South Portable Mills Ad for Pacific Liver Pills Ad for Swaynes’ Ointment Ad for Health Braided Wire Dress Forms Ad for Prickly Ash Bitters Small advertisements PAGE 4 THE MARION HERALD – Published Every Thursday by the Herald Publishing Co. TOWN AND COUNTRY Take the Herald. Pickin’ out de cotton. Come to court on Monday next. A boom for Marion – the Kansas City railroad. Look up and read the new legal notices in this issue. Mr. ALLEN ARNOLD of Bexar was in town on Tuesday last. Capt. SHIELDS of Vernon passed through town on last week. Our friend Mr. R. N. TERRELL paid Aberdeen a visit on last week. While in town during court come around and subscribe for the Herald. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. CLARK spent part of this week and last with friends on Beaver Creek. Mr. J. G. FORD of Pearce’s Mills was in town on last week and gave the Herald office a call. Mr. J. F. HAMILTON of Barnesville was in town the first of the week and gave our sanctum a call. We are prepared to do all kinds of ordinary job printing and city prices will be duplicated. Send in your orders. Mr. W. A. DUNN of near this place but who has been teaching at Thorn Hill returned home on last week. Look over this paper and see if your section is represented. If not, write up the news items and send them to the Herald. Rev. DUNCAN will hold his next quarterly meeting at Smyrna Church on 4th Sunday and Saturday before in this month. The editor attended preaching at Smyrna Church on Sunday last and heard an interesting sermon preached by Rev. JOHN ARNOLD. Miss LIZZIE WIGINTON, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. WIGNINTON, we regret to learn is very sick with fever. Hope she may soon be restored to health. Has the Belgreen News suspended? There must be something the matter, we haven’t seen a copy for three weeks, and miss our neighbors cheerful presence very much. Remember it is getting about time some of our subscribers were settling up arrears, and that a printer occasionally needs a dollar just the same as any other class of human beings. A few more days and our merchants can have their goods delivered at Caudle. This beats hauling them forty-six miles over a rough road by means of wagons, as they have heretofore been forced to do. Some of our citizens are contemplating the idea of attending the Georgia exposition but as yet we haven’t heard anybody speak of going to Alabama’s Fair. Wonder if their best interests are over in Georgia? County Court convened her eon Monday last, the Hon. WALTER H. MATTHEWS in the chair. He presided with the usual grace and dignity that characterizes a true judge meeting out with equal precision justice to all concerned. We should have a daily mail from Hamilton to Caudle, and the sooner the matter is considered and the line established the better it will be for the convenience of our people., all of whom have long since felt the great need of one. We are requested to say to the patrons of the school heretofore held at this place, that a meeting for the purpose of devising some plan by which a school can be secured will be held at the school house on Saturday next at 9 a.m. All are invited to attend. Some men are mean enough to stop their paper because they become offended at the editor on account of a mere trifle, but the do not stop reading the paper all the same they just borrow of their neighbors. A man of this class is almost mean enough to make a good Mormon elder. Mr. PAT DUNN gave us a call a few days ago and presented us with a sample of stone salt, or a stone containing salt consisting of metric acid and potass, and called nitrate of potass which eh said was taken from a bed of rock on Mr. MITCHELL’S farm near Thorn Hill. The sample so far as we are able to judge is of the finest quality, and it is reported as being in great quantities. We learn that Mr. JAS. PEARCE of Pearce’s Mills, while in Sheffield recently, conversed with parties in regard to the building of the Sheffield & Seaboard R. R. and was informed that the said road would be built in the near future, and that it would be built on the last survey made. This being true the road will pass directly through our town. Let ‘er come. The following letter written by Mr. PLUMMER WILLIAMS, father of BAYLESS WILLIAMS, the man killed near Belgreen recently and handed over to us by Mr. AVERY seems to prove that the people around Belgreen are by no means satisfied as regards the way in which the matter has been placed before the public. We do not remember of ever having met BAYLESS, but we are well acquainted with his father and regard him as being a quiet, truthful, law abiding citizen. The following is the letter: September 26th, 1887 Dear Sir: I proceeded on from the Association up to Belgreen, where I found many of the citizens of that little town brooding over the horrible and inhuman death of my son. And although I found it afloat in the newspapers that the posse that acted this tragedy were justifiable, honorably discharge and etc. This does not comport with the general sentiment there – the posse employed a lawyer to see them through, provided they were prosecuted. So he proceeded with them to the scene where the inquest was held, and the justice being inexperienced, he officiated and wrote out this congenial report. Several of the jury told me they (unwarily) signed, being disgusted and confused. And not being willing for the matter to remain before the public in that shape, they were when I left, consulting a plan to set themselves right before the public. The papers generally sing on the popular side, and it seems that they took an early start to getup public opinion in their favor. The matter will be thoroughly looked into before the grand jury at court. Respectfully PLMMER WILLIAMS. HACKLEBURG DOTS Hackleburg, Ala. October 1st, 1887 Rain has fallen here at last and cotton picking and sorghum making is the order of the day – among the farmers. Mr. S. WALKER has been quite sick for the past week. Mr. H. C. WALKER left on last week for Sardis, Tennessee where he will make his future home. Success to him. Mr. C. M. ELDRIDGE and one Mr. THOMPSON, of Barton Station, Colbert County, passed through our burg on last Thursday. They were on hunt of a mule which had been stolen from the stable only a few nights before, and supposed to have come in this direction. T eh mule is described as being a large black mare mule, with white speck in right eye. Rev. W. R. PATTERSON will attend the ordinance of baptism at the ford of Brush Creek near Allen’s Factory on 2nd Sunday in October at 9 a. m. On 3rd Sunday Rev. PATTERSON will preach the funeral sermon of Mrs. OWN SWINNEY at a vacant house near the BAILY place on the Hackleburg road. GLEANER COUNTY COURT PROCEEDINGS State vs. WILLIE MELTON, assault with a gun, acquitted. State vs. WILLIE MELTON, injury to stock, convicted and fined $20.00 and costs. State vs. J. W. MELTON, assault with a stick, acquitted. State vs. GEO. W. VAUGHN, assault continued. State vs. BUD PRATT, trespass after warning, found guilty and fined $1.00 and cost. State vs. JOSH WALLACE, Abusive language, nolle prosequi. State vs. JOHN WALLCE, resisting officer, fined $50.00 and cost. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, ala. September 28th, 1887 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Marion County, Alabama at Hamilton, Ala. on November 21st, 1887. Hd. No. 7018 JOHN PARKER, for the N ½ of NE ¼ Sec 17 T 10 R 14 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: JOHN M. MITCHELL, JAMES TAYLOR, JOSEPH W. PALMER, and JAMES W. COOPER, all of Hamilton, Alabama. FRANK COLEMAN, Register NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, ala. June 10th, 1887 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Marion County, Alabama at Hamilton, Ala. on November 14th, 1887. Adjoining Farm Hd. No. 9953 ANDREW J. KELLY for the NW ¼ of SE ¼ Sec 1 T 11 R 13 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: ANDERSON H. BURLASON of Hamilton, ROBERT S. MOBLEY, EPHRAM F. THOMPSON and JAMES P. PEARCE, all of Pearce’s Mills, Alabama FRANK COLEMAN, Register NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, ala. September 28th, 1887 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Marion County, Alabama at Hamilton, Ala. on November 21st, 1887. Hd. No. 12319 HENRY W. HUGHES for the NE ¼ Sec 3 T 12 R 14 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: ROBERT C. PAUL, WILLIAM A. CANTRELL, JAMES B. CANTRELL, and J. N. CANTRELL, all of Pikeville, Ala. FRANK COLEMAN, Register NOTICE! NOTICE! Pursuant to, and by virtue of a commission issued by the Hon. Secretary of State on the 21st day of September 1887 to the undersigned as incorporators of the Alabama great Northwestern railway Company, we will open or cause to be opened, books of subscription to the Capital stock of said Railway Company on the 12th day of November 1887, at the court house of the county of Marion, in the town of Hamilton, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. E. B. JOSEPH W. F. JOSEPH J. W. WOOLFOLK NON-RESIDENT NOTICE State of Alabama, Marion County HAMILTON and WHITE, pltffs Vs JOHN KIRKSEY, Deft W. R. H. LODEN, garnishee Before me as Justice of the Peace, this 3rd day of September 1887 came the plaintiffs in the above entitled cause, and it appearing that property belonging to the defendant has been levied on by virtue of a garnishment issued from my office, and the garnishee have answered indebtedness and that the said defendant is a non-resident of this state. It is therefore ordered that notice of said garnishment by attachment be given to the said JOHN KIRKSEY once a week for three successive weeks before the 27th day of October 1887 in the Marion Herald, a weekly newspaper published in said county, on which day he must attend or judgment may be rendered against him JOHN F. COOLEY, Justice of the peace CONSOLIDATED NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala. August 24th 1887 Notice is hereby given that the following named settlers have filed notice of their intention to make final proof in support of their claims, and that said proof will be made before the Judge or in his absence the clerk Circuit Court Marion County, Ala at Hamilton, Ala on October 22nd, 1887, Hd. Viz: No. 6518 WILLIAM R. SELF for the S ½ of NE ¼ Sec 32 T 10 R 12 West. No. 3143 THOMAS BURLASON for the SE ¼ of SE ¼ Sec 29 and NE ¼ of NE ¼ Sec 32 T 10 R 12 West. They name the following witnesses to prove their continued residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: THOMAS BURLASON, MALICHI GC. BURLASON, JAMES F. BURLASON, FRANCIS M. HOWELL, WILLIAN N. SELF, E. W. ARMSTRONG, JOSEPH T. ARMSTRONG, all of Pearce’s Mills, Ala. FRANK COLEMAN, Register PROFESSIONAL CARDS W. W. CALLAHAN, Attorney at Law – Hamilton, Alabama, will practice in Marion and adjoining counties. W. H. KEY. Attorney and Counselor at Law, Hamilton, Alabama. Will practice in Marion and adjoining counties. B. R. FITE. Attorney-at-Law, Hamilton, Alabama. Will practice in Marion and adjoining counties. Special attention given to the collection of claims. FRANK SAUNDERS, Photographer. Successor to A. R. HENWOOD, Aberdeen, Mississippi W. A. YOUNG Attorney at Law, Vernon, Alabama will be present at each sitting of the Chancery, Circuit and County Courts of Marion County Dr. B. W. RODEN, A Botanic Doctor. Will be at Allen’s Factory on Saturday before the first Sunday in each month for the purpose of treating Chronic Diseases. I practice for cash and cash only except in cash where my patients have been prompt in their payments in retofore. B. W. RODEN GEO. C. ALMON, ED. P. ALMON. ALMON & ALMON, Attorneys at Law, Belgreen, Alabama. Will practice in Franklin County and all adjoining counties, and especially in Marion; also in the Federal Courts at Huntsville and in the Supreme Court at Montgomery. W. L. BULLOCK. Attorney at Law – Belgreen, Alabama offers his professional services to the people of Franklin, Marion and other adjoining counties. Mr. BULLOCK will regularly attend the Circuit Court of Marion County. New Store and New Goods. I have just receives a new and complete stock of clothing and Gents Furnishing Goods – Hats, Caps, Boots and Shoes – Dry goods, Ladies Dress Goods. Family Groceries, drugs and medicines, hardware, tinware, stationery, canned goods, candies, glassware, queensware, tobacco, snuff, cigars, and the justly celebrated Mountain Mills Cotton Yarn. All will be sold at prices to suit the times. Highest prices paid for Cotton, wool, furs, dry hides, beeswax, poultry, and all country produce. Very Respectfully - W. R. WHITE, (Post office Building) Hamilton, Alabama Ad for Champion Lamp Ad for Automatic Rug Machine - Ladies why spend weary weeks making rugs with the old fashioned hook, when in a few hours the same work can be accomplished with our new automatic rug machine. Makes rugs, lap robes, mittens, etc. It works rags or yarn. A full line of yarns and rug patterns in stock. Machine and terms to agent by mail for $1.00. Ad for The Ithaca Gun – Damascus Steel Barrels – Best English Twist Barrels - $35 –picture of gun Ad for the Palmer Boss Church – picture of churn – Largest barrel church factory in the world. It makes more butter, a superior quality of butter, a harder, better grained butter, than any other churn sold. No Church works so easily. No Churn cleans so easily. It keeps out cold air; it keeps out hot air; it is perfect so they all say. Ask your dealer for the “Palmer Boss Church.” And if he does not keep it, send to us for circular and testimonial letters. H. H. palmer & Co. Rockford, Ill. Ad for Palmer Washer – picture of washing machine – ladies and laundries should investigate this machine at once. It will save you time, labor and money. The only washer built on the true principle. Will save its cost in three months. You have same control of clothes as with your hands and wash board and will wash them in half the time, as you can use hot suds while rubbing them, without putting your hands in the water. Don’t spoil your hands and temper or allow your laundries to ruin your clothes with acids. Ask your dealer for “The Best Washer” or send of circular to H. H. Palmer & Co., Rockford, Ill. Ad for Comfort Corset STATE NORMAL COLLEGE, Florence, Alabama. T. J. MITCHELL, PH. D. President. Superior Advantages. This Institution offers superior advantages for the Professional Training of Teachers in all grades of school work. No Further Examination. The completion of any one of its three courses of study entitles the student to teach in any of the schools of the state without further examination. Tuition is Free. To those preparing to teach, tuition is free and good board in pleasant private families cost only ten dollar a month. Session opens September 20th. The next session will open on the above date. Requests for Catalogues and other information will receive prompt attention. MCQUISTON & HEISEN, Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants, Aberdeen, Miss. Dealers in the Celebrated Steel Brush and Improved Cotton Bloom-Lummus Gins, Feeders and Condensers and the Southern Standard and Eclipse Cotton Presses, Also the Old Hickory and Hickman Wagons – the best made. Liberal advances to merchants and farmers. Subscribe for the Marion Herald - subscription Rates: One Year , cash in advance one dollar Six months, cash in advance, sixty cents File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/themario127nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 25.6 Kb